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Re: you get money from Exxon/Mobil?
Sadly, I never had the wisdom to invest in the oil companies.
I surely could use those dividends to help pay for what these short-sighted ideas like corn ethanol and refusal to develop our own oil resourses are costing me.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 25, 2008 at 8:16 PM
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you get money from Exxon/Mobil?
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 24, 2008 at 10:33 AM
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Re: it's amazing how you warp things
Oh, and speaking of warping things . . . the human toll I address is starvation, here and now, as we burn up food to placate the "global warmers." The human toll you address is something that has not even begun to happen, and if and when it does happen it will be due to natural causes we can neither prevent nor alter.
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WriterofLight
on April 23, 2008 at 9:26 PM
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Re: it's amazing how you warp things
Interesting that mention the Colorado River. It has a history of extremes that go back a long ways before "global warming", even before the previous fad of "global cooling." The problems its irregular flow was causing those who depended on it for water were one of the key reasons for construction of Hoover (nee Boulder) Dam in the early 1930s.
And as for demand for its water - how is the unfortunate decision by millions of people to settle in arid lands with very limited freshwater supplies to begin with related to "global warming"? There has not been adequate fresh water in the Los Angeles basin relative to the population there for decades; that's why the aqueducts were built from, I believe, the 1930s through 1970s. Same for Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas. That's not "global warming"; that's a fact of the geology of the southwestern United States.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 23, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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it's amazing how you warp things
the human toll of the well-demonstrated phenomenon of Global Warming will be (and is already) happening on a scale not seen before.
Already sea levels are rising and inundating certain coasts -- those people have had to relocate inland.
The Colorado River is very low -- the reservoirs are many feet below their usual level -- and let's see who needs that water -- Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas (we can do without Las Vegas anyway -- gross overuse of resources there) -- gonna have a historic fight there and water rationing.
The odd thing is you take one aspect that was thought to be a solution (ethanol), and blow the problem so out of proportion.
Of course that's the way conservatives address issues anyway. Few facts and making mountains out of molehillls. Taking an infinitesimal part of the entire picture and treating it like it's the whole thing.
The entire planet is warming. There is no disputing that. CO2 levels are at record highs, many times more than the highest level in the past. Temperature rise is indisputably linked to the rise in CO2.
Sorry, the big picture doesn't fit your limited viewpoint -- or is it that your limited viewpoint doesn't at all mesh with the big picture.
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Xeno-x
on April 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM
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